WorksheetsLatin I: Trojan War Trivia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis (the parents of the future Achilles), which goddess rolled in an apple that said on it "to the fairest of them all"?
Eris, goddess of discord
Venus/Aphrodite, goddess of love
Vesta, goddess of the home/hearth
Diana, goddess of animals/hunting
This Trojan prince was tasked with deciding which goddess was truly, "the fairest of them all"
Hector
Paris
Priam
Aeneas
During the "Judgment of Paris," three goddesses competed for the title of "fairest of them all". Which goddess did NOT compete?
Venus/Aphrodite
Minerva/Athena
Diana/Artemis
Juno/Hera
Because she offered a gift/prize of ________, Venus won the "Judgment of Paris"
wisdom/strategy in war
power/sovereignty
Helen
prowess in hunting
Paris stole Helen from her husband, the Greek prince named ______.
Menelaus
Agamemnon
Achilles
Patroclus
In order to gain favorable winds that would allow the Greek soldiers to set sail to Troy from Greece, Agamemnon, the Greek leader, had to do which of the following actions?
sacrifice his daughter
sacrifice his wife
kill one of the Greek soldiers
kill a Trojan soldier
_____________, a Greek, wanted to "avoid the draft;" that is, he didn't want to have to go fight in the Trojan War. Therefore, he pretended to be insane so that his fellow Greeks wouldn't want him to fight with them.
Achilles
Odysseus
Agamemnon
Menelaus
_____________, a Greek, wanted to "avoid the draft;" that is, he didn't want to have to go fight in the Trojan War. Therefore, he pretended to be a woman so that his fellow Greeks wouldn't be able to find him and recruit him.
Achilles
Odysseus
Agamemnon
Odysseus
It is said that the Greeks and Trojans fought for ______ years, with both sides losing many soldiers.
three
five
seven
ten
Finally, in the tenth year of battle, things changed. When Agamemnon refused to return a war prize, a priestess named Chryseis, to her father, this god sent a plague on the Greeks.
Ares/Mars
Hermes/Mercury
Zeus/Jupiter
Apollo
To stop the deaths of his fellow Greeks, Agamemnon agreed to return his war prize. To make up for his lost war prize, he then took the war prize of _____________________.
Odysseus
Achilles
Patroclus
Menelaus
Because he was so angry at his own leader, Achilles decided to sit out of battle for a while. While he did, his friend/lover, named __________, decided to put on Achilles' armor and fight.
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Hector
Patroclus
Achilles, so upset at the death of his friend/lover, decides to re-enter battle. He gets new armor in the process. Which god or goddess crafted his new armor for him?
Aphrodite/Venus
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Zeus/Jupiter
Ares/Mars
Achilles, in a fit of rage because his opponent had killed his friend/lover, decided to face this best Trojan fighter, named _____________, in a one-on-one battle that everyone watches.
Aeneas
Priam
Paris
Hector
Achilles killed Hector in battle, and then decided to commit a dishonorable act against him. What was the dishonorable act?
pillaging Hector's home
dragging Hector's body around the city walls
stealing Hector's wife
cutting Hector's body into many small pieces
This king of Troy, named ______, approached Achilles, asking that Achilles do the honorable thing, and return the body of his son, Hector, to him.
Priam
Hector
Aeneas
Paris
Pretending that they had sailed home, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse and said that it was really a dedicatory offering to the god/goddess, ___________________.
Athena/Minerva
Hera/Juno
Zeus/Jupiter
Hermes/Mercury
A Greek, named ________________, stood outside of the horse and told a fake story about its origin and purpose. This man pretended that he had been abandoned by his fellow Greeks, and that he was now a friend/ally of the Trojans.
Sychaeus
Aeneas
Sinon
Argos
The Trojan priest, named _________________, warned against bringing the horse into the city. He said "I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts!"
Laocoon
Apollo
Paris
Helen
This priestess, named _______, who always predicted the future correctly, but was believed by no one, also warned the Trojans against taking the horse into the city.
Chryseis
Cassandra
Andromache
Creusa
